Easy slow cooker pork chops cooked in a delicious honey garlic sauce. Only 5 main ingredients so this recipe is perfect for busy weeknights!
Just pop the ingredients in your slow cooker (crockpot) at lunchtime and by dinner, you'll come home to a tasty slow-cooked meal the whole family will love!
I seriously LOVE my slow cooker (don't forget to check out all of my slow cooker recipes on the blog!), especially during the colder winter months. I use it lots on busy weekdays when I'm ferrying my children to after-school sports clubs, practices, and other activities and I don't have time to cook.
These honey garlic slow cooker pork chops are a real family favourite in our house. They only take 4 hours to cook on high, so I usually pop them on just after lunch, and by the time we get home, dinner is pretty much served!
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✔️ Why should you try it?
Here's why this is the best fall-apart slow cooker pork chops recipe!
- 5 minutes prep time.
- Slow cooking results in succulent and tender pork chops.
- Delicious honey garlic sauce.
- Only 5 simple ingredients.
🥘 Ingredients
The honey garlic crockpot pork chops are so easy to make. It's a quick dump-and-go slow cooker recipe, so prep time is an absolute minimum.
- Pork chops - use thick pork chops or boneless pork steaks if you prefer.
- Garlic cloves - if you love garlic add half a teaspoon of garlic powder too.
- Honey - clear runny honey is best.
- Ketchup - add a lovely sweetness.
- Soy sauce - or use Worcestershire sauce instead.
- Parsley - for garnish
- You may want to thicken the sauce with a cornflour slurry.
🥄 Equipment
Which slow cooker? I use a Morphy Richards Sear and Stew 6.5 litre slow cooker, which means I can brown and slow cook in the same pot as the slow cooker pot is safe to use on the hob! The 6.5 litre capacity serves 6-8 main portions, so it’s ideal for families and those that like batch cooking. There is also a 3.5 litre version for smaller households!
🔪 Instructions
The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post
One: Place the pork chops in your slow cooker.
Two: Mix up the honey garlic sauce and pour it over pork chops.
Three: Cook on high for 4 hours ( or 6 hours on low). Thicken the sauce with a cornflour slurry if desired.
Four: Garnish with parsley before serving.
🍴 Serving suggestions
There are a lot of options when it comes to serving these tender pork chops. My favourite way of serving them is with roasted baby potatoes or crispy polenta roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, and slow cooker red cabbage. Stir-fried green beans and roasted Brussels sprouts also work well.
Creamy mashed potato, egg noodles, cauliflower rice, and turmeric rice are other tasty options.
📖 Variations
- Try using lamb chops instead of pork chops and replace the parsley with freshly chopped mint.
- Spice up the honey garlic sauce by adding a teaspoon of hot chilli powder.
- The honey garlic sauce is also great with chicken breasts.
- Make a creamy sauce instead, using a can of cream of chicken soup or cream of mushroom soup.
🥡 Storage
Leftovers can be placed in an airtight container and kept in the fridge for up to 3 days.
🧊 Suitable for freezing?
The slow-cooked pork chops can be frozen for up to 3 months. Once cooled, place in a freezer-safe container and pour over the sauce, seal with a tightly fitting lid, and place in the freezer. Defrost in the fridge before reheating in the microwave.
❓ FAQS
Aesthetically, there may be an argument in favour of browning, but there is no need to brown the chops before placing them in the slow cooker.
Pork chops can be cooked on high for 4 hours or on a low setting for 6 hours.
Pork chops are a lean cut of meat, and when cooked on the hob or in a conventional oven, they are relatively quick-cooking and prone to overcooking. The benefit of slow-cooking pork chops is that the trapped steam and heat within the slow cooker help tenderise the chops, making it almost impossible to overcook them.
😋Related recipes
Here are some more slow cooker recipes for you to try;
- Slow cooker pulled beef
- Slow cooker spaghetti bolognese
- Slow cooker chilli con carne
- Slow cooker sausage casserole
- Slow cooker hunter's chicken
- Slow cooker lamb breast
- Slow cooker beef goulash
- Slow cooker chicken fajitas
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Recipe
Easy Slow Cooker Pork Chops
Ingredients
- 4 Pork chops
- 2 Garlic cloves chopped
- 80 g Honey
- 150 g Tomato Ketchup
- 4 tablespoon Soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Parsley chopped
- 2 tablespoon Cornflour
Instructions
- Place the pork chops in your slow cooker (crockpot).4 Pork chops
- In a jug mix together the garlic, honey, ketchup and soy sauce. Pour the sauce over the pork chops.2 Garlic cloves, 80 g Honey, 150 g Tomato Ketchup, 4 tablespoon Soy sauce
- Cook on high for 4 hours (or low for 6).
- If the sauce needs thickening, take the cooked pork chops out of the slow cooker and place them on a plate. In a small bowl whisk 2 tablespoon of cornflour with enough water to make a thick paste, and then whisk it into the sauce. Cook with the lid off for 15 minutes to thicken up. Alternatively, use thickening granules that are now available in all major supermarkets.2 tablespoon Cornflour
- Once the sauce is thickened to your liking, place the pork chops back in and serve with the chopped parsley.1 tablespoon Parsley
Notes
- Try using lamb chops instead of pork chops and replace the parsley with freshly chopped mint.
- Spice the honey garlic sauce up by adding a teaspoon of hot chili powder.
- The honey garlic sauce is also great with chicken breasts.
Sue
These chops look so good, and who doesn't like honey garlic sauce? - Can't wait to give these a try!
Jacque Hastert
I love dinners this time of year that can be made in the slow cooker. It eliminates me having to heat up my kitchen for dinner. This one is loaded with flavor and will be a hit here! We love pork chops!
Safira
These look great! Love the flavours in the sauce too. All my fave things
Charles Smart
Made this today and it was hit.
Wonderful sauce and really tender chops so many thanks
Beth Sachs
Glad you enjoyed it Charles!
Sharon
This slow cooker recipe is great for busy weeknights and lazy Sunday's alike. The honey garlic sauce on this also sets this meal apart from other pork recipes.
Toni
Such a delicious meal! My family loved it!
Marcia
Absolutely amazing and so easy!
Leigh Catlow
Made this this week, sauce was lovely, meat falling off the bones, going to try the sauce with chicken breasts this week, not quite sure how long to cook for, any idea?
Beth Sachs
Hi Leigh. Glad you enjoyed it. I'd cook chicken breasts for 6 hours on low.
Tessa
Did this last night and loved it. An hour before serving I added 150g of rice and 1 1/2 the volume of the rice in water and the whole dish was delicious. Much better than the boring lion steaks we were going to have and less work in a heat wave.